Whewellite Quotes & Sayings

When I look at the 'Rocky Balboa' film when I played the undisputed heavyweight champion, I feel like art is going to imitate life. I played the champ in a movie and I'm going to become the champ in reality. — Antonio Tarver

In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song. — Yoon Ha Lee

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric Raymond

Let me have men about me that are fat ... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. — William Shakespeare

Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers. — Wallace Stegner

It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go — Sophie Germain

No, Elenore's something else. You're beautiful. Especially when you look at me with that 'boy he's a condescending asshole' expression ... Yea. Beautiful. — Maggie Stiefvater

You don't otta like someone to like fuckin' 'em. You can even hate their fuckin' guts and still like fuckin' 'em. Sometime's that's the best kinda fuckin'. Angry, crazy, fucked up, fuckin' ... — Madeline Sheehan

I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up. — Daniel Keyes

Success is judged not by the position you reach in life but by the obstacles you have overcome. — Sandeep Jauhar

Simplicity can intensify the emotion. — Emmylou Harris

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us ... — H.L. Mencken

Americans by the very nature of the soft fat they collected around their brains along with all of their comforts, their total ignorance of historical meanings, their delusion that anarchists were either comic little men plotting nothings in a dark cellar or misunderstood cranks--how could Americans be taken seriously in a world of real politics? — Helen MacInnes

I do most sincerely believe that ethical behavior as we best construe it ought to be followed by us throughout our lives, even on the last day of life, and that if we have made a bad or even evil choice we are not barred (or excused) thereby from continuing to live the last moments or years given to us in whatever way we consider to be most right. — William T. Vollmann

And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural. — Frank McCourt